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I had been thinking that in the 2009 everybody knew that existed a group of Africans, men and women, that has become millionaire deceiving white people from the rich countries.  People, who blinded by the ambition that the publicity produces, are still dreaming of that someday a cousin will die and will leave them a millionaire inheritance in an african bank.

For more than twenty years I have been listening to and reading about the same history: people that have been cheated on by these swindlers. What it is incredible is that every day somebody get cheated. And my question is: why a person can be so naïve? Can ambition makes people so blind? I know that millions of people do not read even their phone bills. But they watch TV. Two months ago Oprah made a program about these swindlers. Perhaps these ambitious people are so busy thinking of becoming millionaires that they don’t have just five minutes to find out what is going on in this crazy world.

Then, when one of these persons receives a letter or an E-mail from the African Bank telling him that a cousin, his wife and their three children have died in a car accident and left him $12.5 millions that “HE” can claim, immediately this person loses his mind. The amazing thing is that this person knows very well, that he has not any relative in Africa, and he also knows that none of his cousins is millionaire. Then, why he, with that astonishing easiness, believes that tale?  Please give me the answer. 

Just think for one second and I tell me, how could you believe in someone that you have never met? If you receive a letter or an E-mail from Africa saying that there are $12.5 million which you can claim, and you believes it, then you need more information; you need to read more.  Two weeks ago I read a really sad history about a young Canadian man who believed in those email scammers. This poor man gave about $150.000 dollars to a con artists.

This gentleman received an email from an “attorney” named Matthew Spencer, in which he told him that a distant relative had died in a bomb attack in London, England, (Could somebody tells me when was the last time that a person died in London because of a BOMB ATTACK?) and left behind $12.8 million. When he finished reading it, he right away thought that his life was set. He blindly believed to Mr. Spencer, and right away began to fulfill the requirements.

First, Mr. Spencer requested $2,500 to begin the process. He sent it. Then, little by little, this scammer was asking for more and more. Mr. Spencer also invited him for a meeting in London, and asked him to bring $10.000 Yes, he went, and, behind a hotel, gave to Mr. Spencer the money.  But do not think that this stopped there. No, Mr. Spencer continued asking for more money. This poor man, blinded by the ambition, started to borrow money from his several friends and his relatives.

This story ended when Mr. Spencer invited him to New York to give him the millions. O maybe, to show him the truth! Yes, he went. But Mr. Spencer did not show up. He did not meet his millionaire friend in NY, but he met the reality. Today he owes more than $100.000. Observe something curious in this case: people who lent him their money, you can be sure, knew that this man would use that money for that adventure. This means that they too believed this African tale.

It is very lamentable that today, when one can find free information about anything, these things are still happening to hundredths! Every day he is now asking to himself: how a person that always told me,”God bless you”!, could do this to me?